Crime & Safety

FBI Joins Investigation Into LA Firefighter's Disappearance

Los Angeles Fire Department Firefighter Francisco Aguilar hasn't been heard from since Thursday when he went to his condo in Mexico.

LOS ANGELES, CA — FBI agents are helping investigate the disappearance of a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter in Mexico.

Francisco Aguilar traveled to his condo near Rosarito last week and his family last heard from him Thursday.

Relatives later traveled to Mexico to check on him and found the condo ransacked and his Jeep and a dirt bike missing and his phone has been turned off.

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His family is trying to access home security cameras in the hope of finding out what happened to the 48-year-old Aguilar, a 20-year veteran of the department assigned to Station 44 in Cypress Park.

FBI agents are working with Mexican authorities to find Aguilar, but the bureau declined to provide further information.

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